Stuck in the Middle: Fibronectin-Binding Proteins in Gram-Positive Bacteria.

abstract：:The family Marseilleviridae, defined as a group of icosahedral double-stranded DNA viruses with particle size of approximately 250 nm and genome size of 350-380 kbp, belongs to the nucleo-cytoplasmic family of large DNA viruses. The family Marseilleviridae is currently classified into lineages A-E. In this study, we i...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Aoki K,Hagiwara R,Akashi M,Sasaki K,Murata K,Ogata H,Takemura M

更新日期：2019-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Probiotic bacteria are recognized for their health-promoting properties, including maintenance of gut epithelial integrity and host immune system homeostasis. Taking into account the beneficial health-promoting effects of GABA, the presence of the gadB gene, encoding glutamate decarboxylase that converts L-glutamate t...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Sokovic Bajic S,Djokic J,Dinic M,Veljovic K,Golic N,Mihajlovic S,Tolinacki M

更新日期：2019-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Monacolin K (MK) is a secondary metabolite of the Monascus species that can inhibit cholesterol synthesis. Functional red mold rice (FRMR) is the fermentation product of Monascus spp., which is rich in MK. FRMR is usually employed to regulate serum cholesterol, especially for hypercholesterolemic patients who refuse s...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Yanli F,Xiang Y

更新日期：2020-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Candida haemulonii is an emerging opportunistic pathogen resistant to most antifungal drugs currently used in clinical arena. Metal complexes containing 1,10-phenanthroline (phen) chelating ligands have well-established anti-Candida activity against different medically relevant species. This study utilized larvae of G...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Gandra RM,McCarron P,Viganor L,Fernandes MF,Kavanagh K,McCann M,Branquinha MH,Santos ALS,Howe O,Devereux M

更新日期：2020-03-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The changes of gastric microbiome across stages of neoplastic progression remain poorly understood, especially for intraepithelial neoplasia (IN) which has been recognized as a phenotypic bridge between atrophic/intestinal metaplastic lesions and invasive cancer. The gastric microbiota was investigated in 30 healthy c...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Wang Z,Gao X,Zeng R,Wu Q,Sun H,Wu W,Zhang X,Sun G,Yan B,Wu L,Ren R,Guo M,Peng L,Yang Y

更新日期：2020-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasmid mediated horizontal gene transfer (HGT) has been speculated to be one of the prime mechanisms for the adaptation of roseobacters (Rhodobacteraceae) to their ecological niches in the marine habitat. Their plasmids contain ecologically crucial functional modules of up to ∼40-kb in size, e.g., for aerobic anoxyge...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Petersen J,Wagner-Döbler I

更新日期：2017-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Melanization due to the inactivation of the homogentisate-1,2-dioxygenase gene (hmgA) has been demonstrated to increase stress resistance, persistence, and virulence in some bacterial species but such pigmented mutants have not been observed in pathogenic members of the Vibrio Harveyi clade. In this study, we used Vib...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Wang Z,Lin B,Mostaghim A,Rubin RA,Glaser ER,Mittraparp-Arthorn P,Thompson JR,Vuddhakul V,Vora GJ

更新日期：2013-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Inorganic polyphosphate (polyP) is a linear polymer of orthophosphate residues. It is reported to be present in all life forms. Experimental studies showed that polyP plays important roles in bacterial durability and virulence. Here we investigated the relationships of polyP with bacterial durability and virulence the...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Wang L,Yan J,Wise MJ,Liu Q,Asenso J,Huang Y,Dai S,Liu Z,Du Y,Tang D

更新日期：2018-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Tyrophagus putrescentiae colonizes different human-related habitats and feeds on various post-harvest foods. The microbiota acquired by these mites can influence the nutritional plasticity in different populations. We compared the bacterial communities of five populations of T. putrescentiae and one mixed po...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Erban T,Klimov PB,Smrz J,Phillips TW,Nesvorna M,Kopecky J,Hubert J

更新日期：2016-07-12 00:00:00

abstract：:During the summer months, wet (hyporheic) soils associated with ephemeral streams and lake edges in the Antarctic Dry Valleys (DVs) become hotspots of biological activity and are hypothesized to be an important source of carbon and nitrogen for arid DV soils. Recent research in the DV has focused on the geochemistry a...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Niederberger TD,Sohm JA,Gunderson TE,Parker AE,Tirindelli J,Capone DG,Carpenter EJ,Cary SC

更新日期：2015-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：:IncI-complex plasmids can be divided into seven subgroups IncI1, IncI2, IncIγ, IncB/O, IncK1, IncK2, and IncZ. In this study, a replicon-based scheme was proposed for typing IncI-complex plasmids into four separately clustering subgroups IncI2, IncI1/B/O, IncIγ/K1 and IncK2/Z, the last three of which were combined fro...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Zhang D,Zhao Y,Feng J,Hu L,Jiang X,Zhan Z,Yang H,Yang W,Gao B,Wang J,Li J,Yin Z,Zhou D

更新日期：2019-01-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacillus cereus plays an often unrecognized role in food borne diseases. Food poisoning caused by this pathogen is manifested by either diarrhea or emesis. Due to the relatively high prevalence of emetic toxin cereulide associated food poisoning, methods for simple and reliable detection of cereulide producing strains...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Doellinger J,Schneider A,Stark TD,Ehling-Schulz M,Lasch P

更新日期：2020-10-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the last years the role of fungal endophytes in plant biology has been extensively studied. A number of species were shown to positively affect plant growth and fitness, thus attempts have been made to utilize these microorganisms in agriculture and phytoremediation. Plant-fungi symbiosis requires multiple metabo...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Rozpądek P,Domka AM,Nosek M,Ważny R,Jędrzejczyk RJ,Wiciarz M,Turnau K

更新日期：2018-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Metabolic disorders associated with obesity and cardiometabolic disorders are worldwide epidemic. Among the different environmental factors, the gut microbiota is now considered as a key player interfering with energy metabolism and host susceptibility to several non-communicable diseases. Among the next-generation be...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Cani PD,de Vos WM

更新日期：2017-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Paracoccidioidomycosis (PCM) is an endemic mycosis in Latin American caused by the thermodimorphic fungi of the genus Paracoccidioides spp. Notably, a Th1 immune response is required to control PCM. In this context, dendritic cells (DCs) seem to be essential players in capture, processing and presentation of Paracocci...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Silva LBR,Taira CL,Dias LS,Souza ACO,Nosanchuk JD,Travassos LR,Taborda CP

更新日期：2019-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Weaning is one of the most stressful challenges in the pig's life, which contributes to dysfunctions of intestinal and immune system, disrupts the gut microbial ecosystem, and therefore compromises the growth performance and health of piglets. To mitigate the negative impact of the stress on early-weaned piglets, effe...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Xu J,Li Y,Yang Z,Li C,Liang H,Wu Z,Pu W

更新日期：2018-08-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Historically filamentous bacteriophage have been known to be the workhorse of phage display due to their ability to link genotype to phenotype. More recently, the filamentous phage scaffold has proven to be powerful outside the realm of phage display technology in fields such as molecular imaging, cancer research and ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Bernard JM,Francis MB

更新日期：2014-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Laccases are a family of copper-containing oxidases with important applications in bioremediation and other various industrial and biotechnological areas. There have been over two dozen reviews on laccases since 2010 covering various aspects of this group of versatile enzymes, from their occurrence, biochemical proper...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Yang J,Li W,Ng TB,Deng X,Lin J,Ye X

更新日期：2017-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Long-term continuous cropping influences the nutrient of soil and microbiome of the rhizosphere, resulting in the yield decrease of crops. Tibetan barley is a dominant cereal crop cultivated at high altitudes in Tibet. Its growth and yield are negatively affected by continuous cropping; however, the response of the rh...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Yao Y,Yao X,An L,Bai Y,Xie D,Wu K

更新日期：2020-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacillus cereus is a Gram-positive pathogen that causes a wide variety of diseases in humans. It secretes into the extracellular milieu proteins that may contribute directly or indirectly to its virulence. EntD is a novel exoprotein identified by proteogenomics of B. cereus ATCC 14579. We constructed a ΔentD mutant an...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Omer H,Alpha-Bazin B,Brunet JL,Armengaud J,Duport C

更新日期：2015-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Soft Rot Pectobacteriaceae (SRP; Pectobacterium spp. and Dickeya spp., formerly known as pectinolytic Erwinia spp.) are necrotrophic bacterial pathogens infecting a large number of plant species worldwide, including agriculturally-important crops. Despite the SRP importance in agriculture, little is known about the ba...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Czajkowski R

更新日期：2019-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：:A better understanding of global ruminal microbiota and metabolites under extensive feeding conditions is a prerequisite for optimizing rumen function and improving ruminant feed efficiency. Furthermore, the gap between the information on the ruminal microbiota and metabolites needs to be bridged. The aim of this stud...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Zhang J,Shi H,Wang Y,Li S,Cao Z,Ji S,He Y,Zhang H

更新日期：2017-11-09 00:00:00

abstract：:As a natural severe contaminant of stored grains and other crops worldwide, Aspergillus flavus can produce aflatoxins (AFs), the most powerful naturally producing toxic and hepatocarcinogenic compounds. AFs production is regulated by diverse factors including AFs cluster genes, transcription factors, regulators, and e...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Li X,Jiang Y,Ma L,Ma X,Liu Y,Shan J,Ma K,Xing F

更新日期：2020-07-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The increased association of enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) with veal calves has led the United States Department of Agriculture Food Safety and Inspection Service to report results of veal meat contaminated with the Top 7 serogroups separately from beef cattle. However, detection methods that can also prov...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Luedtke BE,Bosilevac JM

更新日期：2015-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Fungi represent a rich source of bioactive metabolites and some are marketed as alternatives to synthetic agrochemicals against plant pathogens. However, the culturability of fungal strains in artificial laboratory conditions is still limited and the standard mono-cultures do not reflect their full spectrum chemical d...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Oppong-Danquah E,Parrot D,Blümel M,Labes A,Tasdemir D

更新日期：2018-09-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Infections by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) are gradually increasing in the community. In this study, we investigated a total of 162 food samples including 112 ready-to-eat (RTE) foods and 40 processed raw meat and fish samples collected from retail vendors in Dhaka, Bangladesh and determined the ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Islam MA,Parveen S,Rahman M,Huq M,Nabi A,Khan ZUM,Ahmed N,Wagenaar JA

更新日期：2019-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：:To understand the contribution of animal- and human-derived fecal pollution sources in shaping integron prevalence and diversity in beach waters, 414 Escherichia coli strains were collected from beach waters (BW, n = 166), seagull feces (SF, n = 179), and wastewaters (WW, n = 69), on the World Biosphere Reserve of the...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Moura A,Araújo S,Alves MS,Henriques I,Pereira A,Correia AC

更新日期：2014-08-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The two main pillars of clinical microbiological diagnostics are the identification of potentially pathogenic microorganisms from patient samples and the testing for antibiotic susceptibility (AST) to allow efficient treatment with active antimicrobial agents. While routine microbial species identification is increasi...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Welker M,van Belkum A

更新日期：2019-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Aflatoxins are highly toxic carcinogens that detrimentally influence profitability of agriculture and the health of humans and domestic animals. Several phylogenetically distinct fungi within Aspergillus section Flavi have S-morphology (average sclerotial size < 400 μm), and consistently produce high concentrations of...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Singh P,Callicott KA,Orbach MJ,Cotty PJ

更新日期：2020-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Conflict and cooperation between bacterial species drive the composition and function of microbial communities. Stability of these emergent properties will be influenced by the degree to which species' interactions are robust to genetic perturbations. We use genome-scale metabolic modeling to computationally analyze t...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Chubiz LM,Granger BR,Segrè D,Harcombe WR

更新日期：2015-04-14 00:00:00